Month: February 2016

February 29, 2016

Dominik Schwarz is currently studying for a Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resources at the University of Sunderland and a regular Chess Team Player for South Shields this year. He was also a driving force behind the setting up of the First Chess Society at the University, after discovering a bunch of like minded chess players huddled over a board.

Together they  mustered up a team comprising of Piotr Niedbal , Dominik Schwarz , GedimInas Balys and Thong Luu and decided to enter the British Universities Chess Championship 2016, this year held in Birmingham .

Entered into the Shield Division , the team finished in a very creditable third place out of 18 entrants. Finish closely behind Imperial and Warwick. Thong Luu playing on Board 4 won an Individual Gold Medal with a score of 10 from 10 games, with Piotr Niedbal, board 1 taking a Silver Medal with a score of 7.5 out 10.  It was a great team effort .

The competition was run over 2 days in a Quickplay Format comprising 10 rounds of 25 minutes plus 10 second increments.

February 8, 2016

Here are selection of the recollections of some of our members past and present .

February 8, 2016

South Shields v Hartlepool

1. Brian Towers 1-0 Bernie Price
2. Dave Patterson 1-0 Dave Lowcock
3. Eddie Czestochowski ½-½ Dave Smith
4. Chris Sayers 1-0 Mark Priest
5. Alan Blackburn ½-½ Eddie Glass

A South Shields 4 -1 Win now sets up an interesting situation in their next game. A Win would be needed against Hetton Lyons 2 in order to swop positions with them and finish in the top 5 of the Division . That would then mean they then play all those top 4 teams again in the second part of the season.

February 8, 2016

South Shields C 4-1 Forest Hall Ensigns

Dominik Schwarz 1-0 Roy Perrier
Ben Wood 0-1 John Wall Jnr
Stan Johnson 1-0 Jamie Mcintosh
Mike Savin 1-0 Xu Weiming
Brendan Glasper 1-0 David Ridley

South Shields had a great result here  , it would need more results like this and a bit of a collapse by the teams above them if they stand any chance of progression,

Thursday 28th January 2016

February 8, 2016

South Shields B 4-1 Forest Hall Chieftains

Brian Towers 1-0 John Wall Snr
Dave Patterson 1-0 Paul Charlton
Kevin Rowden 1-0 John Wall Jnr
Colin Campbell 0-1 Mark Broughton
Eddie Czestochowski 1-0 Keith Brooks

South Shields currently stand at top of this Division with 3 tough matches remaining .

 

Thursday 04th February 2016

February 7, 2016

South Shields had a good night of Chess at Peterlee ,last Tuesday 2nd February , our teams are sitting at the top of the league after rounds three and four and it looks like we will probably have to face each other in the final rounds.The Ron Evers RapidPlay competition is run on a handicap basis , and our teams have been organised such that they are actually fairly evenly matched so it will very interesting to see the outcome.  The final rounds are due to be played on the 14 th of March .

P W D L GPts MPts South Shields 2 4 4 0 0 15½ 8 South Shields 1 4 3 0 1 13½ 6 Bishop Auckland 4 2 1 1 9½ 5 Hetton Lyons 1 4 2 0 2 13 4 Durham City 4 2 0 2 11½ 4 Hartlepool 4 1 1 2 8 3 Hetton Lyons 2 4 1 0 3 9 2 Peterlee 4 0 0 4 7½ 0